一年便是一万九千文
“which makes 19,000 wen a year—”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
一年便是一万九千文
“which makes 19,000 wen a year—”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In imperial China, daily retail trade was conducted in copper cash (文), which was converted into silver taels (两) for official accounts and large transactions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
is precisely; amounts to
A literary connective equivalent to '就是', used in formal or classical speech to state an exact conclusion or sum.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“And you're asking for 100,000 just like that?”
“That's 42,000 a year.”
“It's more than 200,000 yuan!”
“and that makes 36,000 wen.”
“so that's 10,800 wen a year,”